Europe

Donald Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to visit Washington DC next year, the US national security adviser John Bolton has confirmed. “We have invited President Putin to Washington,” Bolton said during a visit to Tbilisi, Georgia. It is...

Nearly 50,000 troops are joining NATO war games in Norway to test alliance defenses against a “fictitious aggressor.” Germany is the second largest participant as it prepares to head NATO’s rapid response force. NATO launched its...

The UK government has been accused of endangering diplomatic relations with Belgium after its “exceptional” refusal to cooperate with an inquiry into GCHQ’s alleged hacking of Belgacom, the country’s biggest telecoms company. For at least two years...

Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after allowing third party developers to access user information without sufficient consent. The ICO announcement on Thursday upholds its initial...

Barcelona city council has said it will report the “unacceptable” racial abuse of a black woman on a Ryanair flight from the city as a possible hate crime. Delsie Gayle, 77, said she had felt stunned and depressed after a man...

In early 2017, Ismaele La Vardera, a 22-year-old Sicilian journalist, surprised the Italian political scene when he announced his candidacy for mayor in the southern city of Palermo. Even more surprising was his decision to stand...

At least 18 people have been killed and many more wounded at a college in Crimea after at least one attacker launched an assault using a gun and a homemade bomb. Several witnesses described a gunman stalking the...

Telecoms firm Orange has teamed up with Google to work on a private undersea cable connecting the Atlantic coasts of France and the United States. Measuring 6,600km in length, the undersea cable will be named Dunant after Henry...

Brexit talks have hit a significant impasse over the issue of the Northern Ireland border, British government sources have claimed, increasing the likelihood of a deal being achieved only at the last minute, if at all. After the...

Senior Labour politicians have spoken out in support of Cécile Kyenge, the Italian MEP who is being sued for defamation for calling Italy’s ruling League party racist, after one of its members compared her to an orangutan. Kyenge,...